Theresa, I’ll always love Knut, ’cause he was the first. Though I do still love Flocke and the other new one, whose name escapes me at the moment. The world needs more polar bears, Colbert’s just a sissy.

Hi Katrina. 🙂 Hey, for those regulars who aren’t American, please say hello and tell me where you’re from. I love talking to people from other countries and the accents and personalities that go with them.

I’m from the Republic of Connecticut. We’re a tough lot, with many intricacies and subtle nuances- our cuisine is delightful and our children-well, you know, we shoudn’t brag, but we do anyway. It’s just a little “Lake Wobegon” up here.
Whence comes our Erebella?

Teho, considering we’re talking about animals, where would the crewcut be? I would think the lovely furry butts would no longer be cute with crewcuts. Although it’s funny. Reminds me of the bear in The Great Outdoors – remember the end?

Erebella – We are divided half Yankees, half Sawx. This household is Yankees. Neighbor on neighbor violence is frowned upon here, so, we all get along.

Thanks for the insight on Lake Wobegon, Theo, I’ll stop making the comparison.

cheesybird, please to be careful in your rhyming,(insertsmileyfacehere!) the Yiddish patrol will come and get you _”p*tz” is the Yiddish word for one of a gentleman’s private parts.
Yikes!
That is just a great bear.
Oh, Erebella, Connecticut is much more Ireland-like, you can live here instead!

Come on down to Ballamer, Murlin, hon. It’s humid as all hell here and hot! Damn hot!
By the way, has anyone else noticed the other Kris that has posted a few times? I think it’s a “him” though. I haven’t seen him around this week, so I guess I can keep my posting name simple for now. :o)

Katrina, considering the Yiddish patrol I know are all my elderly uncles, not so worried about them comin’ after me. 😉 (BTW, “schmuck” means the same thing, but sadly doesn’t rhyme as well with “butts”)

Just a Yiddish-patrol thought here: “schmutz” and “klutz” do NOT rhyme. “Klutz” rhymes with “nutz,” but “schmutz” (means dirt, by the way, the kind your mother used to lick her hankie and smoosh off your face using the hankie) rhymes with …. um, sounds more like …. um, “schmootz” with a short “oo,” like “hoof.” I know, TMI.

I was waiting for someone to call me on that, mberkie0. I’ve heard “schmutz” pronounced both ways, especially when it’s made into the adjectival “schmutzig”. I think Yiddish pronunciations are fairly fluid depending on where your family came from.

Sorry Theresa old pal, that was a styoopid error on my part.
What’s a “Met”? Harhar.
Apparently Jon Stewart lives and dies with the Mets, too.
We get Mets games on the TV and if I have the control it stays on(I’m an equal opportunity watcher), but once the DaddyRabbit comes in the room *swooshclick*-he has had a strong Yankees streak in him since childhood. We have a nice Minor League ball park and we go watch “The Rockcats.” That is more fun because you might get beaned with a baseball-I heard one whoosh by my ear once. I ducked and EVERYONE in the stadium-about 5,000 people was so angry that I didn’t try to catch it.So much disapproval- it rivaled Winston and Cinnamon together!